Social Networking --> Not facebook (Part 1)

Unless you've been under a rock for the last decade or so, then you know and are an addicted user (to a perverted level) of online social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. You may convince yourself that they are useful tools that allow you to communicate with long lost high school friends, let everyone know about your tastes in music and TV and movies, share pictures from parties and let people know how you are feeling by updating your mood. But, we all really know that the only reason you use them is for perverted reasons like stalking, looking for an under age partner (Ryan Mooney) and scrabble. So my goal and the aim of this post is to enlighten your mind and expand your knowledge about a genre of websites that you are already familiar with, but with more useful qualities then scrabble.

I'm going to talk about a few social networking sites over the next week or so, however, these sites focus on one particular topic rather then a broad and gross display of ones self, such as MySpace or Facebook.

These sites look to bring people together on the basis of shared interests. For example, a social networking site based on music that brings people with similar music tastes together, a travel based site that brings Jet Setters together to share their experiences at home and abroad, and other which have similar aims in the realm of business, books, fashion, Crochet and Canada.

Today I'm going to talk about a site that bring people together solely based on musical interest...Last.fm

is a site which connects people on the grounds of musical taste and listening habits. It does this through a number of ways, the first is by tracking what you listen to in itunes through the use of an audioscrobber. The Scrobbler tracks what you listen to then reports that information back to last.fm. Last.fm then makes musical recommendations based on what you listen to and connects you to other users who share the same tastes. The site also has user created groups centered on a particular artist, genre of music, local venues and a multitude of other means to connect and extract musical genius which resides in the deep recesses of your soul. The website also tracks your most listened to artists, songs, albums and also has a bunch of free audio and video content availiable for you to listen and watch on the website, all for LIBRE. For those with Facebook withdrawl, yes, you do get to create your own little profile page, so all individuality is not lost...
Give it a try